It's been a while since this emerged, but the robotic sentry developed by Samsung's Techwin division to guard the border between North and South Korea should not be missing in a robot products section.

"The gist of this project is to transform the current guard and observation mission on fronts conducted by soldiers into a robot system," said Shin Hyun-don, a South Korean defense ministry spokesman, in an interview with The Korea Times. "We will comprehensively review the requirements of operational capability before implementing it."

Are the robots really there? Or can they be bought for the widely reported price for US$ 200'000? Not sure.

Samsung has taken all infos on the robot offline. Nevertheless, their patent and their promo video (below) and hundreds of news articles remain in the public domain.

According to the articles, the system was introduced into service in May 2007. The system nicknamed "See-Shoot" is said to contain sensors and cameras deployed around border posts that could see more than one kilometer into the Gaza Strip.

Yes the author is very good in selling his ideas but he doesn't have any grasp about AI rather than computanional power I would say more integration density and parallel computing.What makes our brain different is parallel computation not the speed of computing Billions power in 10 years?

Hi and how are you? Satish bhawra.I am Mary. I think intelligent Surveillance & Security Guard Robot is how effective to prevent anything goes wrong or to accuracy. It is good to invention of such a Robots are a huge achievements in it self. But after all nothing is cost much than human efforts. Hope this achievements can get good enough for big deals.Thanks.

I guess using a security guard robot is really good and accurate but it seems like it is more expensive than human security. I think intelligent surveillance is enough for me for my home security system and some human security personnel.